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Ithaca Tops Lumosity ‘Smartest City’ Ranking

ITHACA, NY—Ithaca is eggheads—at least according to a new ranking of the Smartest Cities in the country. The home of Ithaca College and Cornell University tops almost 500 other cities on the list, many of them college towns as well.

The rankings were compiled by Lumosity.com, a website devoted to helping users train their brains to maximize performance through the use of games and tests, all based on the latest research in neuroscience. The results draw from the site’s database of how users perform on those games, grouped geographically by metropolitan area.

Ithaca tops the overall ranking, but comes up first in specific areas of cognitive performance, too: flexibility, problem solving and speed. It’s also ranked number one in the Under 35 age group.